Xabi Alonso has taken the whip at this beginning of the preseason in the Real Madrid. The training of the white team under the morning sun of Valdebebas has lasted almost three hours. Maximum intensity and maximum sacrifice for a team that will only have 15 days of preparation in this campaign before debuting against Health On the first day of the League in the Santiago Bernabéu.
The session of Real Madrid This Friday started in the gym, with both individual and group activation. Already on the grass, the players completed possession circuits, driving series and 4 and 5 series against 5. Subsequently, they carried out a tactical phase to finish the training with ending.
A maximum intensity training with Xabi Alonsor the controls in the second preseason session for the Real Madrid. In the first, in the afternoon, coach Tolosarra became serious. And in the second he already took out the whip. And is that the second preseason training of whites in Valdebebas It lasted about three hours. One pass. All with the aim of physically arriving at 100% at the beginning of the season.
Only 15 days will have the Real Madrid Before starting the 25/26 course and Xabi Alonso He knows that he needs to turn on the engine the better. And that has done. Impose maximum intensity from the beginning, exposing severe physical wear to their players from the first sessions so that they can reach the bike debut on August 19 against Osasuna. There is no time to lose.
On the other hand, Xabi Alonso He has also taken the whip with the schedules. While the sessions are longer, since last Monday it lasted two hours and this Tuesday about three hours. Last season most sessions lasted about an hour and a half. In addition, the Madrid coach has ordered that his players have to arrive an hour before the start of each training. A standard that is modified with respect to the previous stage with Carlo Ancelotti, which was 30 minutes.
Since the whites were eliminated by the PSG In semifinals of the Club World Cup, until the match against Health They will have passed alone 40 days, counting that the players have enjoyed minivacations between the World Cup event and the return to work. Something that forces the technician to make a preseason more than short.
The team will have to recover the pace for that premiere and will do it with a friendly on August 12, in Austria, before the Tyrol. As usual in recent years, they could also play a training match in Valdebebas, against some team from the Community of Madrid.
